The room was quiet, the others flicking glances at me. I ignored them. After years in Sounis's palaces being eyed with disgust… — Megan Whalen Turner Copy Share Image
...many of the officials, courtiers, and priests, representing the upper class of Egyptian society but not the royalty, looked strikingly like modern… — Carleton S. Coon Copy Share Image
I would not be a rose upon the wall A queen might stop at, near the palace-door, To say to a courtier,… — Elizabeth Barrett Browning Copy Share Image
In the common words we use every day, souls of past races, the thoughts and feelings of individual men stand around us,… — Owen Barfield Copy Share Image
When mighty roast beef was the Englishman's food It ennobled our hearts and enriched our blood-- Our soldiers were brave and our… — Henry Fielding Copy Share Image
And why does England thus persecute the votaries of her science? Why does she depress them to the level of her hewers… — David Brewster Copy Share Image
If, in looking at the lives of princes, courtiers, men of rank and fashion, we must perforce depict them as idle, profligate,… — William Makepeace Thackeray Copy Share Image
Days pass when I forget the mystery. Problems insoluble and problems offering their own ignored solutions jostle for my attention, they crowd… — Denise Levertov Copy Share Image
“Cardan had grown up in the palace, a wild thing to be cosseted by courtiers and scowled at by the High King.… — Holly Black Copy Share Image
Though freedom and wealth are both good things which most of us desire and though we often need both to obtain what… — Friedrich August von Hayek Copy Share Image
Dogs live with man as courtiers 'round a monarch, steeped in the flattery of his notice ... to push their favor in… — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
What is known as success assumes nearly as many aliases as there are those who seek it. Like love, it can come… — Stephen Birmingham Copy Share Image
